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Waste Processed
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Industrial facilities site turning municipal waste into clean electricity

Waste to Energy

Key Impact Highlights

Economic Project investment: ~Rp 3 trillion (~USD 170.4 million) per facility Indicative economic value: Rp 8.5–14.2 trillion per facility over 30-year concession 80% more land efficient than conventional landfill Social >400,000 households served per facility 700–1,200 green collar jobs per facility Technology and skills transfer Environmental 640,000 tCO₂/year emission reductions per facility (Bali) >19 million tCO₂e avoided annually nationwide 80% emission reduction vs. open dumping 30 MW cle

Scaling the National Platform

Denera's platform covers municipal Waste-to-Energy or PSEL plants across Indonesia's priority cities. Batch 1 comprises three locations: Greater Denpasar (Bali), Greater Bogor, and Bekasi City. Batch 2 covers up to 12 locations, plus two transitional sites. Total platform investment is estimated at approximately US$5 billion across 30+ locations. Since the issuance of Presidential Regulation No. 109/2025, the program has progressed rapidly from partner selection and regional agreements to the st

Waste to Energy

Strategic Objectives

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Waste Management Transformation

Each Denera facility operates within an integrated waste management system, covering the full cycle from source reduction and sorting to recycling, energy recovery, and PSEL. A single site manages municipal waste for more than 400,000 households, consolidating collection, processing, and disposal into a single monitored facility built to operate across a 30-year concession. Land freed from conventional landfill is 80% more efficient per unit of waste handled, freeing space that would otherwise be consumed by open dumping.

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Environmental Benefit

Indonesia's waste sector contributes 10–15% of national GHG emissions, driven primarily by methane with 25 times the warming potential of CO₂ released from decomposing organic matter in open landfills. Denera eliminates this at the source. Controlled combustion above 850°C, filtered to EU IED standards and continuously monitored, replaces open dumping, open burning, and uncontrolled methane venting. Processing waste through PSEL reduces emissions per tonne by approximately 80%, from approximately 1.8 tCO₂e under open landfill to approximately 0.3 tCO₂e. Nationally, the platform avoids more than 19 million tCO₂e annually while processing 13.2 million tonnes of waste each year, positioning DENERA as one of the most material contributors to Indonesia's 2060 Net Zero Emission commitment.

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Social Economy

Each Denera facility creates economic gravity beyond its fence line. A single site activates 10–15 supporting industry sectors, with an indicative total economic value of Rp 8.5–14.2 trillion over a 30-year concession. The clean electricity generated in the process — 3.96 TWh per year nationally — powers more than 1.5 million households through PLN. At national scale across 30+ locations, the employment impact alone reaches hundreds of thousands of positions across direct, indirect, and induced categories.

Economic Impact

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Green jobs

Each facility supports 700–1,200 green collar jobs — 500–1,000 during construction and approximately 200 permanent operations and maintenance roles — sustained employment through the life of the concession, not a one-time construction bump.

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Investment

A facility contributes Rp 1.3–1.6 trillion to GDP during its construction phase alone, then continues delivering Rp 180–220 billion annually once operational — economic value that compounds over the life of the concession, not a one-time construction gain.

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Public health

Avoided public health impacts sit among the named components inside the facility's indicative economic value, alongside reduced pungent odors and soil/water pollution from eliminating open dumping — the direct human benefit of replacing uncontrolled disposal with a monitored process.

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